Andy Chalk:<Oh, the irony. You could cut it, as they say, with a knife.

Badum-tish

Bravo, sir...Bra-vo.

OT: My brother has the same obsession with his damn football and rugby games. But he's one of the REALLY bad ones (obviously not as bad as stabbin' me dad), the ones where even if he is winning by 40,000 - Nil, he will still curse and bang the armrest if the opposition score a goal.

He just wants to Win Win Win, and that's why he punched someone at school, because that's all he knows how to do.

Though he sucked at THAT as well, because he hit the guy in the back (I know, right?), hit the shoulderblade and broke his knuckle. Pathetic.

Come to think of it, he's probably all insecure and prone to lashing out because I adopt such a bastardly air of superiority around him.

Oh yeah, and I now coin "Bastardly"

Definition: Doing something with the behaviour and nature of a Bastard.

It's best not to tease the staff over news stories. Their stories have to go through the proper channels and citation checks, and finally write an article varying from the original source, while you only simply need to copy and paste while giving your opinion.

Not to mention there is a large section of people who come to this site without ever setting foot in the forums. Anyway...

SonicKoala:What a little asshole. My reasoning for that comment? This is just going to give the anti-video game lobby more fodder they can use to push this idea that video games have a negative impact on the people who play them. They'll never take into account the fact that this kid is clearly batshit insane.

God forbid someone do something without thinking of the political consequences. As much as you hate it, the kid's part of the gaming community. He represents it just as much as the average CoD4 ten year old.

What have you done to portray gamers in a favorable light lately? Nothing? Imagine that.

It's best not to tease the staff over news stories. Their stories have to go through the proper channels and citation checks, and finally write an article varying from the original source, while you only simply need to copy and paste while giving your opinion.

Not to mention there is a large section of people who come to this site without ever setting foot in the forums. Anyway...

Irridium:Wow, I know Europeans get kind of batshit insane when it comes to football(Soccer), but... wow.

Every single country in europe?

I thought only the brittish went nuts over football.

Ultras exist all over, from Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Russia and Poland all get really worked up. English largely comes from reputation of the days when it was more prevalent, sadly the crack down cost football all those great terraces. Still goes on though, like when Millwall played West Ham in the FA Cup.

Andy Chalk:<Oh, the irony. You could cut it, as they say, with a knife.

Badum-tish

Bravo, sir...Bra-vo.

OT: My brother has the same obsession with his damn football and rugby games. But he's one of the REALLY bad ones (obviously not as bad as stabbin' me dad), the ones where even if he is winning by 40,000 - Nil, he will still curse and bang the armrest if the opposition score a goal.

He just wants to Win Win Win, and that's why he punched someone at school, because that's all he knows how to do.

Though he sucked at THAT as well, because he hit the guy in the back (I know, right?), hit the shoulderblade and broke his knuckle. Pathetic.

Come to think of it, he's probably all insecure and prone to lashing out because I adopt such a bastardly air of superiority around him.

Oh yeah, and I now coin "Bastardly"

Definition: Doing something with the behaviour and nature of a Bastard.

SonicKoala:What a little asshole. My reasoning for that comment? This is just going to give the anti-video game lobby more fodder they can use to push this idea that video games have a negative impact on the people who play them. They'll never take into account the fact that this kid is clearly batshit insane.

God forbid someone do something without thinking of the political consequences. As much as you hate it, the kid's part of the gaming community. He represents it just as much as the average CoD4 ten year old.

What have you done to portray gamers in a favorable light lately? Nothing? Imagine that.

I actually haven't stabbed a SINGLE person today - Furthermore, I went to university earlier, and then came home and made myself a sandwich; all of these things make me out to be a completely normal individual, therefore helping to improve the image of gamers everywhere! And no, this kid who stabbed his father does not represent the gaming community - he may be a gamer, but he is by no means a representation of the overwhelming majority of people who play video games; you know, that large mass of people who DON'T stab their fathers in the throat.

John Funk:Well if Assassin's Creed 2 has taught me anything, all young Italian men carry swords and kill people, so this really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

lmfao nice one..

Yeah I agree with this...

SonicKoala:What a little asshole. My reasoning for that comment? This is just going to give the anti-video game lobby more fodder they can use to push this idea that video games have a negative impact on the people who play them. They'll never take into account the fact that this kid is clearly batshit insane.

It was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread name...

Though I was confused.. I must have misread the title because at first I thought it said that the dad stabbed the little boy... Which would have blown my mind...

I know not all sports gamers are like this, but I don't find this very surprising, because the experience I have had with people who play sports games... They all have had a screw loose.

For example, my one ex's brother back when I was in high school smashed his girlfriends ps2 controller to bits because his team fumbled... Are sports games this serious? o.o;

Fuck you! Video games aint taking the blame for this one. This is pure Italian insanity over football. The fact that it was a video game is irrelevant.

Ya know, Italy has some of the most fucked up rape laws in the "civilised" world. But you can imagine if some kid played Rapelay just once in his life then raped a girl they would totally forget all about their joke of a legal system and just blame the games.